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While you may not be as likely to knock this stand over, there’s no screen or edge protection so, if you drop it, you’re playing damage roulette.

Let’s stop for a minute and think about our own days of playground roulette.

Without content moderators, a visit to social media platforms could be a game of roulette, in which bad luck could leave you traumatized.

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Every winter is a bit of a roulette wheel when it comes to influenza.

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It shows that the Malaysian airliner may well have fallen victim to a high-altitude game of Russian roulette.

“It is like Russian roulette to use these drugs,” he told WebMd in 2010.

After finding Manning guilty of six counts of spying under the Espionage Act, however, America may be playing Russian roulette.

He also ran Roulette Records and golfed on occasion with Sammy Davis, Jr.

For those patients, getting treated at Rose was like inadvertently playing a game of Russian roulette.

Because they used a heavier ball, roulette looked about the same as on Earth, and the same went for the dice games.

I found him in the act of losing his last rouble at roulette, which did not prevent our spending a very pleasant day together.

Nicholas Rubinstein lost all his money at roulette during the summer.

Of course, at roulette, some number or zero itself is bound to come up every time, but number twenty-seven was invariably unlucky.

It was equally easy to raise money for a roulette wheel, a cathedral or an expedition to Africa.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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